i just thought, i can't believe i get to do this. >> good lord. pearl jam. we'll take a break. we'll be right back. >> the first couple of weeks of results were very promising and surpassed what the expectations were. but i think conan was feeling the pressure, and who wouldn't? >> conan gets three months on the air as the host of "the tonight show" before jay leno gets his prime time show at 10:00 and becomes conan's lead-in again. >> late night television is very dependent on leading. lead-in. so having jay at 10:00, our hope, my hope is that he would do really well. it didn't work out that way. >> jay was incredibly talented, but the program didn't work. nobody wants to see a late night show at 10:00 they found out. >> we were branded the biggest bomb in the history of prime time television. nbc always considered the jay